21 results
- Books
Enlarged prostate : a guide to diagnosis and treatment / Prostate Cancer UK.
Date: [2013]- Books
Know your prostate : a guide to common prostate problems / Prostate Cancer UK.
Date: 2013- Videos
Defeating cancer.
Date: 2012- Videos
Fermilab neutron therapy segment.
Date: 2001- Ephemera
Spotting the signs of cancer : for men / Cancer Research UK.
Date: 2010- Videos
Can dogs smell cancer?.
Date: 2008- Books
- Online
Lockdown 21 March - 14 May 2020 : pink magnolia x soulangeana / Sean McCavera.
McCavera, SeanDate: 2020- Ephemera
Cancer ephemera. Box 3.
- Videos
Don't die young. Series 2, part 1, The male reproductive system.
Date: 2008- Ephemera
Cancer charities ephemera. Box 1.
- Videos
Curing cancer.
Date: 2014- Ephemera
Impotence and men's health ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Watts, John
Date: 23/08/2009Reference: TP1/A/1154Part of: One and Other Project- Digital Images
- Online
Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
Dr Henry Oakeley- Videos
Other people's breast milk.
Date: 2008- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Vickers, John Paul Ben
Date: 7/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1523Part of: One and Other Project- Videos
My last summer.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Fuller, Helen
Date: 16/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1735Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Jones, Brett
Date: 14/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1688Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
Christopher Bell
Bell, Dr Christopher (1941-2008)Date: 1966-1983Reference: PP/BEL- Archives and manuscripts
Mike White: archives
White, Mike (c.1955-2015)Date: 1988-2009Reference: ART/MIW